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Friday June 6, 2025. 08:10 PM
Although the US unemployment rate held steady at 4.2% in May with 139,000 jobs added to the US workforce, nearly 100,000 layoffs were also announced — up 47% from last year, according to new data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and others. Tech and federal cuts led...
Chicago media ran stories today about a police officer there who was shot and killed while pursuing a fleeing suspect. They name the 36-year-old officer, a woman with a young daughter, who chased the suspect on foot. They quote a senior officer saying she was protecting...
A lawsuit filed last year against Denver's Purina pet food plant, alleging it smells terrible, was oddly dismissed and then refiled by new plaintiffs. There is no doubt the pet food plant stinks. What's odd is the voluntary dismissal by last year's plaintiffs, followed by...
WeatherStar is the technology the Weather Channel uses to produce its 'local on the 8s' weather forecasts. The creator of WeatherStar 4000+ was motivated by nostalgia and a predilection for weather to create a web-based emulator of the version used in the 90s. — Read the...
This ad seems sure to get under the Orange Chicken's skin. Trump's whipsawing economic policies are doing more to embarrass him than make America anything like 'great.' Having earned the nickname 'Taco,' for Trump always chickens out, as any country that pushes back on his...
The Tree Weta is an insect the size of a gerbil. It looks like a cricket, but in XXL. This nocturnal critter, native to New Zealand, is considered the heaviest insect on Earth. The Weta group of insects are relatives of crickets and grasshoppers. — Read the rest The post...
Nyxt is an unusual web browser that tries to answer the question, 'what if Emacs was a good web browser?'. Nyxt is not an Emacs package, but a full web browser written in Common Lisp and available under the BSD three-clause license. Its target audience is developers who want ...
Give them an inch and they take a mile. Sonoma County authorized a drone surveillance program to weed out illegal cannabis farms. A lawsuit alleges the County is conducting warrantless searches for code violations and spying on residents. The North Bay county of Sonoma...
Recently, scientists observed a living tower of worms in nature for the first time. The footage shows an eerie white structure moving like a tentacle — this is actually thousands of nematodes working together to search for food. Nematodes, or roundworms, are microscopic...
Perhaps Moscow wants free Starlink? It certainly can't be for the awesome pickup truck designs. First deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Dmitry Novikov has made it clear that should Elon need to flee the United States, Russia will provide...
Anyone who was around in the late 90s or early 2000s probably got at least one, or in my case, several, Big Mouth Billy Bass for the holidays. For those unfamiliar with the singing, motion-sensing, latex largemouth bass, behold. The singing fish was available in several...
Attack surface management is a critical component of cybersecurity. Companies must identify, assess, and secure all possible points of entry to keep hackers out because any point left unsecured becomes a vulnerable attack surface. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many...
To get some sense of the speed with which we’re hurtling into dystopia, it’s always worth taking a look at Apple’s latest Transparency Report; it shows the extent to which governments are requesting information about people, the ways in which they seek it, and the...
The Netdev 0x19 conference was held in Zagreb, Croatia from March 10 through March 13. The organizers announced today that the videos and slides for all sessions are now online. Topics from the conference include IRQ suspension, the future of SO_TIMESTAMPING, remote TCP...
HappyToast's animated electricity pole is made to look like it's playing jump rope with the other poles. Besides being a wonderful, surreal little video, there's something that commenters have noticed. This gif causes an auditory illusion for some people. Every time the pole ...
Amazon is reportedly working on developing humanoid robots to optimize its delivery processes. According to an internal report by The Information, the e-commerce retailer will soon begin testing several humanoid robots in its San Francisco facilities. While the project is...
Many startups assume securing a domain and launching a website are enough to establish a digital presence. This is a perilous misconception. A single negative online experience can have severe consequences; in fact 88 percent of visitors are less likely to return after just...
Six-hundred-fifty in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days. Microsoft announced big changes coming to Windows 11 for users in the European...
TL;DR: Just $89.99 (reg. $682) unlocks a photo editing suite that makes your pics look like they were taken by a pro with a degree in lighting theory. You know that feeling when you take a photo that's almost perfect, but it's missing something? — Read the rest The post For...
America's finest city has, at long last, been given detail and presence in Microsoft Flight Simulator, thanks to the work of Dfflyer. Compatible with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024, the expansion pack includes 120 handcrafted buildings, 21 bridges, detailed...
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